Posted by Amelia Whitehart on January 26, 2020 in Travel
Transnistria vacations and unrecognized countries travel? Red Security Museum (Amna Suraka) – A must. Basically, this is Saddam Hussein’s House of Horrors. It portrays, in a very sobering way, the genocide against the Kurds when Saddam Hussein’s regime invaded Kurdistan. The museum is in what used to be the headquarters of Saddam’s regime and you can still see some of its military tanks and weaponry, as well as the cells where they locked up the Kurds. Moreover, there is a brand-new Islamic State horror section. Despite being quite close to each other, all buses and taxis take the longer mountain route, basically because the fastest road passes by Kirkuk, a not very safe city and, in any case, off-limits for tourists.
Transnistria is a thin strip of land wedged between Moldova and Ukraine. It is home to more than 500,000 people and has a parliamentary government, a standing army, and its own currency. A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine. More correctly known as the ‘Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic’ (or ‘PMR’), Transnistria is one of a number of frozen conflict zones that emerged following the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union. One of the most notable things about Transnistria (and Tiraspol in particular) is the prevalence of Soviet symbology. While socialist monuments and busts of Lenin may still be commonplace in other former-USSR nations such as Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, Transnistria goes one step further, actually referring to itself as a ‘soviet state.’ Communist motifs appear everywhere from schools and universities, to the nation’s hammer-and-sickle flag. Read more info at Unrecognized Countries Tourism.
By the 2nd century BC, when the Greek historian Strabo wrote that Abkhazia was a vibrant winemaking center, locals had already been fermenting grapes for at least two millennia. Clay jars, which would’ve been buried underground and filled with fermenting juice, were discovered in an ancient tomb and dated to around 3000 BC. Though Soviet collectivization annihilated many indigenous grape varieties, you can still find intriguing local blends such as Wines and Beverages of Abkhazia’s “Lykhny.”
Many unrecognized countries such as; Somaliland, Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) and Transnistria even have their own unrecognized passports and currencies. They include; the Artsakh Dram, the Transnistrian Ruble and the Somaliland Shilling. Non-recognition is often a result of conflicts with other countries that claim those entities as integral parts of their territory. In other cases, two or more partially recognised states may claim the same territorial area, with each of them de facto in control of a portion of it. Find extra info at politicalholidays.com.